The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, 2010
Εκλαϊκευμένη επιστήμη ΙστορίαΒιογραφίες και απομνημονεύματα
Ατμόσφαιρα: ανησυχία, δέος και περιέργεια. Μιλά για την πίστη, την οικογένεια και τη μνήμη.
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I’ve spent years staring at that photo, wondering what kind of life she led, what happened to her children, and what she’d think about cells from her cervix living on forever—bought, sold, packaged, and shipped by the trillions to laboratories around the world. I’ve tried to imagine how she’d feel knowing that her cells went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to human cells in zero gravity, or that they helped with some of the most important advances in medicine: the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization. I’m pretty sure that she—like most of us—would be shocked to hear that there are trillions more of her cells growing in laboratories now than there ever were in her body. Βιβλία με παρόμοια αίσθηση
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- Πώς είναι το «The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks»;
- Ατμόσφαιρα: ανησυχία, δέος και περιέργεια. Μιλά για την πίστη, την οικογένεια και τη μνήμη.
- Τι να διαβάσω μετά το «The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks»;
- Αν σου άρεσε το «The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks», δοκίμασε «Steve Jobs» (Walter Isaacson), «Μια σύντομη ιστορία του χρόνου» (Stephen W. Hawking) και «His Way» (Kitty Kelley).
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Το ερώτημα που οι εξισώσεις δεν μπορούν να απαντήσουν.
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Μια σύντομη ιστορία του χρόνου · Stephen W. Hawking
What an apology can build after it has arrived too late.
You were my child. I should have protected you. I lived a lifetime in the moment I read those lines, a life that was not the one I had actually lived. I became a different person, who remembered a different childhood. I didn’t understand the magic of those words then, and I don’t understand it now. I know only this: that when my mother told me she had not been the mother to me that she wished she’d been, she became that mother for the first time.
Educated · Tara Westover
Μια επιστολή γεμάτη προσβολές και ακριβείς λογαριασμούς.
Your income has always been ample, and you never ought to have borrowed any money, and Mary Towle did a great wrong in lending you any money. My opinion of you is the same as it always has been—that you are an extravagant, deceitful, dishonest, worthless person. You have squandered thousands of dollars and left your honest debts unpaid. But I do not think you are capable of comprehending the mistakes that you have made. Now that you are paying up Mary Towle, how would it do to pay the various other accounts that you owe?
Me · Katharine Hepburn
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